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- “Wicked: For Good” Tickets On Sale Trailer
A year ago when tickets went on sale for the first film in the two-part “Wicked” movie adaptation, Universal Pictures released a trailer showcasing the songs from that first half of the musical – “Defying Gravity,” “Popular,” “Dancing through Life,” and “What is this Feeling”. We’ve now reached that time... - Kevin Costner Still Thinks ‘Horizon 3’ Is Happening — Met With Saudi Investors
- ‘Drops Of God’ Season 2 Sets Premiere Date & Unveils First-Look Image
Uncork your bottles, as Apple TV+’s wine drama Drops of God is coming back early next year. The International Emmy-winning French-Japanese drama series will return on Wednesday, January 21, 2026 with a first episode of an eight-ep Season 2. One episode weekly will then drop weekly until March 11. The series... - IDFA Forum To Present Doc Projects On Gaza, Havana Syndrome, Untitled Film From Oscar Nominees Petra Costa, Rémi Grellety And More International Documentary Festival Amsterdam unveiled the lineup for its 2025 IDFA Forum today, promising a compelling slate that welcomes “a new cohort of debut and seasoned filmmakers to the international stage.” Just over 50 documentary projects have been selected for the forum, chosen from among 841 entries. “The 33rd edition...
- ‘The Lost Boys’ Musical Announces Broadway Cast, Sets Opening Date The Broadway world premiere of the new musical The Lost Boys has set an April 26, 2026, opening date and a principal cast that will include Caissie Levy, LJ Benet, Ali Louis Bourzgui and Benjamin Pajak. Previews begin Friday, March 27, 2026, at the Palace Theatre. The announcement was made...
- Johnny Knoxville To Narrate ‘Hillbilly Heist’ Podcast As SmartLess Team Moves Into True-Crime With Will Ferrell & iHeartMedia EXCLUSIVE: The team behind the hit SmartLess podcast is moving into true-crime with a new series narrated by Johnny Knoxville. SmartLess Media has teamed with Will Ferrell’s Big Money Players Network, iHeartMedia and Campside Media on CrimeLess, a true-crime anthology series. CrimeLess will kick off with Hillbilly Heist, narrated by...
- “Distribution Is Back”: MIPCOM Boss Lucy Smith On The Cannes Market & TV Landscape With MIPCOM days away, the international TV biz is about to descend upon the Cote D’Azur for a few days of back-to-back meetings, buying and selling, and some networking in favorite Cannes haunts. RX France organizes the event, which is leaning into the creator economy and branded entertainment this time....
- MHz Choice Acquires North American Rights To French Adaptation Of ‘Camilla Läckberg’s Erica’ EXCLUSIVE: Subscription streaming outlet MHz Choice, which brings prestige international television to North American viewers, has acquired from Studio TF1 exclusive U.S. and Canada rights to Camilla Läckberg’s Erica, the first French-language adaptation of her best-selling Swedish mysteries. The six-episode series encompasses stories from three of Läckberg’s novels – The Ice Princess, The...
- Cillian Murphy Pays Tribute To Teachers In New ‘Steve’ BTS Footage As Movie Debuts Strongly On Netflix EXCLUSIVE: Steve, Oscar winner Cillian Murphy’s latest starring turn, and also the second feature from his and Alan Moloney’s Big Things Films, world premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, and after a two-week theatrical run, the well-reviewed reform school drama landed on Netflix this weekend. Above, we’ve got an exclusive...
- The Indie Route: Why TV Producers Are Self-Financing Scripted Projects Independent film financing has been a staple in the movie world for more than half a century. Back then, filmmakers began to seek greater creative control outside the studio system and for the first time looked for inventive ways to finance their projects. However, for scripted television, it has historically...
- Why ‘Taskmaster’s North American Story Shows TV Execs & YouTube Could Finally See Eye-To-Eye The halls of the Palais des Festivals have for years been packed full of producers telling you they have a series launching on YouTube. And for a long while, they couldn’t find distribution via traditional means. However, TV and the Google-owned platform have reached an inflection point. Now, when a...
- Conservative Backlash Rises Over “One Battle” It has taken a little while to get going, but a conservative backlash towards Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” is reportedly brewing according to THR. Anderson’s film, inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s decades old novel “Vineland,” is political by its very nature and begins with a raid on an...
- New He-Man Film Art Shows Snake Mountain The three-day Brand Licensing Europe 2025 confab is underway in London right now, with more than 2,500 brands represented on the show floor showing off licensed consumer products and IP coming to retail shelves between now and early 2027. That includes Amazon MGM Studios, and Mattel executives Greg Coleman and...
- “Daredevil” S3 Goes In A ‘New Direction’ While the first season of Marvel Studios’ “Daredevil: Born Again” series was essentially a Frankenstein-style creation cobbled together from existing episodes and rewrites, the same won’t be true of the second. Jesse Wigutow, an executive producer on the series, have offered some new details on the Charlie Cox-led superhero show...
- Media Pushes Unverified Ghost of Yotei Sales Claim Based on Tweet from Small “Insider” Account — Sony, Sucker Punch Stay Silent Ghost of Yotei sales rumors have gained traction despite no official confirmation from Sony or Sucker Punch. In the days since Ghost of Yotei’s launch, gaming headlines have been buzzing with claims that the title sold 1.3 million copies in its first 24 hours. The problem? That...
- Firebook Entertainment Signals Move Into Production As First Movie ‘Every Heavy Thing’ Heads To Sitges EXCLUSIVE: Tulsa-based genre specialist Firebook Entertainment has announced the official launch of its production division as its first original feature Every Heavy Thing heads to the Sitges Film Festival this month. The company has previously focused on the acquisition, sale, and theatrical distribution of elevated genre movies, although its CEO and co-founder...
- Sky Nabs Matthew Macfadyen Comedy; Incredible Film Inks Distribution For ‘The North’; Dinard Award Winners — Global Briefs Sky Acquires Elizabeth Banks & Matthew Macfadyen Comedy Sky has acquired The Miniature Wife, a U.S. comedy-drama starring Elizabeth Banks and Matthew Macfadyen, ahead of MIPCOM. The show will air on Sky and NOW in 2026. The series synopsis reads: Marriage gets hilariously complicated in The Miniature Wife, when Elizabeth...
- Banijay Nordic Taps Netflix Exec Georgie Mathew As Filmlance CEO Ahead Of Hanne Palmquist Exit Banijay Nordic has appointed Netflix exec Georgie Mathew to the role of CEO at Stockholm-based pan-Scandinavian production company Filmlance. He will take up his post in January 2026, arriving from Netflix Nordic where he was instrumental in shaping its original series slate in the region. Titles under his watch included...
- Beta Cinema Unveils Fresh Deals For Fatih Akin’s Cannes-Selected End Of WWII Drama ‘Amrum’ Beta Cinema has unveiled a fresh set of deals for Fatih Akin’s Amrum – his Cannes-selected coming-of-age drama set in the final days of WWII – ahead of its German theatrical release on Thursday. The film, which made its festival debut in the Cannes Premieres section has since sold to...
- Carl Lewis Feature Doc & Oscar Contender ‘Checkpoint Zoo’ Head To MIPCOM As Part Of Noah Media’s Market Line-Up EXCLUSIVE: Noah Media’s Carl Lewis feature doc and Oscar contender Checkpoint Zoo are headed to the TV market, with MIPCOM pushes incoming for both projects. Both are big-ticket doc titles for the Cannes sales fest, with exec producers including LeBron James and Leonardo DiCaprio respectively. Sphere Abacus has taken distribution...
- LFF Head Kristy Matheson On The Festival’s Buzzy Competition Lineup, Platforming Filmmakers Who Are “Moving The Art Form In A Different Or New Direction” & Expecting Protests The 69th BFI London Film Festival rolls into action this evening, with a screening of Rian Johnson’s third Knives Out film, Wake Up Dead Man, at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall. Johnson is a familiar face at the LFF, having screened his two previous Knives Out flicks as festival...
- ‘German Cocaine Cowboy’ Producer Beetz Brothers Ups Georg Tschurtschenthaler To Management Team EXCLUSIVE: German Cocaine Cowboy producer Beetz Brother Film Production has upped creative chief Georg Tschurtschenthaler to its management team. Tschurtschenthaler was promoted from Chief Creative Officer on October 1, and now forms part of the Berlin management team, alongside company co-founder Christian Beetz. Reinhardt Beetz, the other co-founder, will continue...
- ‘Gross’ and ‘dehumanising’: Robin Williams’ daughter rages at fans using AI to bring her dad back to life This will soon pose far bigger issues beyond the world of celebrity.
- Taylor Swift says the people who hate her new album are still helping her
- Taylor Swift says the people who hate her new album are still helping her
- French Eco-Thriller ‘Sea Shadows’ Makes Waves With International Buyers EXCLUSIVE: Buzzy French drama Sea Shadows is making a splash with buyers. The eco-thriller follows a marine scientist researching a mysterious shipwreck and has been one of the most-watched scripted shows this year in France, on France 2. Ahead of a major sales push at MIPCOM next week, France TV...
- French Eco-Thriller ‘Sea Shadows’ Makes Waves With International Buyers EXCLUSIVE: Buzzy French drama Sea Shadows is making a splash with buyers. The eco-thriller follows a marine scientist researching a mysterious shipwreck and has been one of the most-watched scripted shows this year in France, on France 2. Ahead of a major sales push at MIPCOM next week, France TV...
- Game Pass Price Hike On Hold For Select Few Following last week’s announcement of a 50% price increase to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription rates, Microsoft has pulled back on that – but only for a select few. Existing subscribers in several regions, notably some European countries like Germany and Poland, along with Asian countries like India and Indonesia,...
- ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Week 4 Ends With Another Shocking Elimination After last week’s rather awkward tribute to TikTok, Dancing with the Stars returned to familiar ground Tuesday with its popular Disney Night. After a Mandy Moore-choreographed opener to “Be My Guest,” the duos opened their rehearsal packages with corny stand-ups from Disneyland to help celebrate the park’s 70th year in...
- ‘Marty Supreme’s Timothée Chalamet Surprises With Buzzcut In Livestream Promoting Josh Safdie Film Timothée Chalamet just starred in a livestream promoting his latest film, Marty Supreme, and shocked with a new buzzcut look. The actor took to Instagram Live to start promo for the Josh Safdie-directed film loosely inspired by tennis player Marty Reisman. In the stream, Chalamet had a ping pong covering his head,...
- “In the Mouth of Madness” Comes To 4K Disc
- Michael Jackson Biopic Reshoots Finished Antoine Fuqua’s Michael Jackson biopic “Michael” has had a long path to the screen. The film was supposed to arrive this year but got pushed back until 2026 due to the need for some serious reshoots. Now, Puck’s Matthew Belloni reports that the reshoots are completed with the film now...
- Zach Bryan Reacts To Criticism Over New Song Mentioning ICE, Saying It Will Hit “Both Sides Of The Aisle”: “I’m On Neither Of These Radical Sides” Zach Bryan is reacting to the controversy generated after he slammed ICE in a new song he is about to release. The country singer shared a snippet of a new song where he mentions Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). “I wrote this song months ago. I posted this song three...
- Dolly Parton’s Sister Asks For Prayers Amid Singer’s “Health Challenges”: “I Was Up All Night Praying For My Sister” Dolly Parton has been facing some “health challenges,” and her sister, Freida Parton, has asked for prayers for the country star. After Dolly Parton postponed her Las Vegas residency in September, her sister Freida took to social media to ask her fans to pray for her. “Last night, I was...
- ‘Wu-Tang: An American Saga’ Co-Creator Alex Tse Signs With Blue Marble Management EXCLUSIVE: Screenwriter and producer Alex Tse has signed with Theresa Kang’s Blue Marble Management for representation across film, television, and all media. Tse co-created Wu Tang: An American Saga, which ran for three seasons on Hulu. Conceived and showrun alongside the rap artist and multi-hyphenate RZA, the two continue their creative partnership and produce...
- Amazon In Talks To Pick Up “Heat 2”
- Reservations Opening Soon for Behind the Seeds: Glimmering Greenhouse Tour at EPCOT Reservations for the "Behind the Seeds" tour at EPCOT are opening October 9th. The one-hour walking tour will run from November 28th through December 30, 2025 as a part of EPCOT's 2025 International Festival of the Holidays. There will be three nightly sessions at 6 PM, 7 PM, and a...
- The Rock Responds to The Smashing Machine Bombing: “You Can’t Control Box Office Results” Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has finally spoken out after suffering the worst box office opening of his career. His A24 drama The Smashing Machine — which opened to just $5.9 million domestically — marked a new box office low for one of Hollywood’s most bankable stars. The...
- Doc Talk Podcast: Oscar Contenders ‘Love+War’, ‘Armed Only With A Camera’ Capture Intensely Dangerous Work Of Conflict Photojournalists The headline on a UNESCO report from last December sums up a grim reality: “Journalists killed in 2024: a heavy death toll in conflict zones for the second year running.” In Gaza, in Ukraine, and in other battlegrounds around the world, photojournalists and reporters continue to risk their lives to...
- Michael Chiklis Signs With UTA EXCLUSIVE: Michael Chiklis has new representation. The Shield star has signed with UTA in all areas. The move comes as Chiklis is starring in The Senior, a feature that opened on September 19. The film, directed by Rod Lurie, is based on the true story of 59-year-old Mike Flynt, who...
- ‘Monster: The Ed Gein Story’ Debuts At No. 2 On Netflix’s Weekly Top 10, Rivaling ‘The Lyle & Erik Menendez Story’ Performance The latest installment of Ryan Murphy’s Monster series on Netflix appears to be off to a slightly better start than its predecessor. Monster: The Ed Gein Story, which premiered on October 3, drew 12.2M views in its first three days of availability, putting it at No. 2 on Netflix’s weekly...
- Taylor Swift On ‘Life Of A Showgirl’ Criticism: “I Welcome The Chaos” & “Everybody Is Allowed To Feel Exactly How They Want” Taylor Swift released The Life of a Showgirl to much hype and fanfare and is now addressing the criticism she has received. While making an appearance on Apple Music’s The Zane Lowe Show, the “Opalite” singer took on a question about the mixed reactions her 12th studio album has received. “I welcome...
- TikTok L.A. Headquarters Targeted, Suspect Arrested & Charged With Making Felony Criminal Threats Criminal charges were filed today against a local man accused of making multiple online threats targeting TikTok’s Culver City headquarters. Joseph Jay Juant Mayuyo, 33, is charged with two felony counts of making criminal threats, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. TikTok employees reported receiving a series...
- Casting Director Bernard Telsey, After Hamptons Film Fest Award, Reflects On Playing “Detective” In Social Media Age Bernie Telsey, a veteran casting director whose credits include the most recent film versions of Kiss of the Spider Woman and Wicked, says social media has only enhanced the role he and his peers play. “Are casting directors needed even more so now? Yes,” he told Deadline in an interview....
- Gavin Newsom Signs Bill That Restricts Loudness Of Commercials On Streaming Services Streaming services in California will have to ensure that their commercials are no louder than the the shows surrounding them California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill, SB 576, that bars the services “from transmitting the audio of commercial advertisements louder than the video content the advertisements accompany.” The legislation...
- Matt Dillon To Play Frank Stallone Sr. In Amazon MGM Studios’ ‘I Play Rocky’ EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Matt Dillon (Crash) has been tapped to play Frank Stallone Sr., father of Sylvester Stallone, in Amazon MGM Studios’ I Play Rocky, the making-of-Rocky movie from director Peter Farrelly, where Anthony Ippolito stars as a young Sylvester. Immigrating to the U.S. from Italy as a teenager, Stallone...
- David Henrie Teases ‘Wizards Beyond Waverly Place’ Season 2 Finale & Promises “Some Big Easter Eggs” Ahead Of Disney+ Debut Wizards Beyond Waverly Place has spent the better part of its first two seasons mounting some very big questions, particularly about its main character Billie (Janice LeAnn Brown) and her involvement in the Wizard World. Well, viewers will finally be getting some answers when Season 2 debuts on Disney+ tomorrow....
- The true story of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho' isn't like it's depicted in Netflix's 'Monster: The Ed Gein Story'
- ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Alum Sam Jaeger To Recur In Apple’s ‘Bad Monkey’ For Season 2 EXCLUSIVE: Sam Jaeger (The Handmaid’s Tale, The Devil in Ohio) has joined the recurring cast of Apple TV+’s Bad Monkey, sources tell Deadline. The series hails from executive producer Bill Lawrence and is led by Vince Vaughn, who also exec produces. Based on Carl Hiaasen’s New York Times bestselling novel...
- ‘Frankenstein’s Jacob Elordi Explains Why The Creature’s 10-Hour Makeup Process Was “Incredibly Liberating” As Guillermo del Toro‘s Frankenstein comes to life on the big screen, Jacob Elordi recalled the seemingly intense process for becoming the Creature. On the red carpet at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the actor explained to Deadline why the makeup process was “incredibly liberating” for his character work,...
- Cheech Marin, Teresa Ruiz, Dean Norris & Katie Tripp Round Out Cast Of Border Thriller ‘Coyote’ EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Per Prinz has rounded out the cast of Coyote, a border thriller on which we were first to report, with four additions: Cheech Marin (Up in Smoke), Teresa Ruiz (Narcos: Mexico), Dean Norris (Breaking Bad), and newcomer Katie Tripp. Described as a gritty, modern-day thriller exploring the dangerous...
- Karl Glusman, Alan Ruck & Katja Herbers Among 5 Cast In FX Pilot ‘Disinherited’ Karl Glusman (Eenie Meenie), Alan Ruck (Succession), Evil star Katja Herbers, Eddie Marsan (The Bombing of Pan Am) and Jonathan Higginbotham (The Walking Dead: Dead City) have joined leads Victoria Pedretti and Kiera Allen in FX’s drama pilot Disinherited, from Better Call Saul co-creator/executive producer Peter Gould. In Disinherited, an...
- ‘Ragtime’ Sells Out, ‘Waiting For Godot’ Nears $1.9M & ‘Hamilton’ Again Breaks $3M – Broadway Box Office Ragtime was a sell-out, Waiting For Godot approached the $2 million mark and Hamilton once again broke the $3 million mark in an overall hold-steady week on Broadway. In total, the 27 Broadway shows grossed $31,428,040 for the week ending October 5 (which included the Yom Kippur holiday), just 2%...
- Tron: Ares Rotten Tomatoes Score Tanks as Critics Slam Story, Acting
- “Predator: Badlands” Gets Rated PG-13 The upcoming “Predator: Badlands” has reportedly landed a PG-13 rating by the MPA. The new film from director Dan Trachtenberg follows a young Predator – outcast from his clan – who finds an unlikely ally in the Weyland-Yutani android Thia (Elle Fanning) and embarks on a treacherous journey in search...
- The “TRON: Ares” Reviews Are In The verdict is in for this Friday’s “TRON: Ares” and the reviews are decidedly mixed. With 44 reviews counted, the film sits at 57% on Rotten Tomatoes, that’s actually better than the 51% of “TRON: Legacy” but worse than the 61% of the original. On Metacritic it sits at 49/100...
- Ferguson Back For “Dune: Part Three” Out promoting her role in Kathryn Bigelow’s new film “A House of Dynamite,” actress Rebecca Ferguson has confirmed she has already shot all her scenes for the upcoming “Dune: Part Three” which is currently in production. The new film will be based on 1969’s “Dune Messiah” which begins twelve years...
- Diddy wants to serve his sentence at a NJ prison previously home to 'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli and mobsters
- United Artists Board ‘Heat 2’ After Michael Mann Brings Film To Market With Leonardo DiCaprio Circling To Star In Chris Shiherlis Role; Jerry Bruckheimer And Scott Stuber Producing After years of developing a sequel to his iconic crime drama Heat, director Michael Mann looks to be closer to getting the project made as sources tell Deadline United Artists, the Amazon MGM Studios division, is in talks to pick up the project has come on to finance and distribute...
- Oscar Isaac Explains Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ Is “Very Mexican Catholic,” Mia Goth Doesn’t See It “As A Horror Film” As Mary Shelley’s 1818 literary classic returned to the screen once again, the cast and crew of Guillermo Del Toro‘s Frankenstein celebrated the fruits of the writer and director’s lifelong ambition at Monday’s Los Angeles premiere. During the red carpet at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Jacob Elordi told...
- Jason Schwartzman, Aubrey Plaza, Whoopi Goldberg, Amy Sedaris Among Cast In Prime Video’s Animated Series ‘Kevin’ Prime Video has set its cast for upcoming adult animated series Kevin, written and executive produced by Aubrey Plaza, who also will star, and Joe Wengert. Jason Schwartzman (Isle of Dogs), Plaza (The White Lotus), Whoopi Goldberg (The Lion King), John Waters (Hairspray), Aparna Nancherla (The Great North), Gil Ozeri (Big Mouth)...
- Ashley Judd To Star In Indie Drama ‘21 Down’ Inspired By Story Of College Football Player Caden Cox EXCLUSIVE: Ashley Judd has signed on to star as Mari Cox in 21 Down, a film inspired by the true story of Caden Cox, who made history by becoming the first person with Down syndrome to play and score in a college football game. Judd also serves as an executive...
- Trump Pardon For Sean Combs “Still Under Discussion” As Diddy Seeks Move To Cushy Prison For 4-Year Sentence EXCLUSIVE: A potential presidential pardon is still in the mix for Sean Combs, as the Grammy winner and former Donald Trump pal stares down a four-year prison stint. At the same time, after Combs complained at length at his sentencing hearing last week about the conditions at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention...
- Paramount Pictures Domestic Theatrical Distribution Boss Chris Aronson Exiting After an amazing streak at Paramount over the last six years, including Tom Cruise and the studio’s highest-grossing movie, Top Gun: Maverick at $1.49 billion, and the $1.2B+ Sonic franchise, Paramount’s Domestic Theatrical Distribution President Chris Aronson has decided to leave the studio. We understand that his departure is amicable...
- Innovative Signs Basketball Hall Of Famer Dwight Howard Innovative Artists Entertainment on Tuesday morning announced its signing of NBA Hall of Famer Dwight Howard. Howard is an NBA champion, Olympic gold medalist, eight-time NBA All-Star, eight-time All-NBA Team honoree, five-time All-Defensive Team member, and three-time Defensive Player of the Year. He spent nearly two decades in the NBA,...
- ‘Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone’ Sets Theatrical Re-Release To Mark 25th Anniversary Can you believe it’s been 25 years? Warner Bros. is marking the 25th anniversary of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (aka Philosopher’s Stone) with a global theatrical re-release of the original film as part of a year-long celebration across all divisions of the media company. Full details are still...
- Michael Cerveris To Play Scrooge In Jack Thorne’s ‘Christmas Carol’ Adaptation Off Broadway Two-time Tony Award winner Michael Cerveris (Fun Home, Sweeney Todd) will play Ebenezer Scrooge in Jack Thorne’s adaptation of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at New York’s Perelman Performing Arts Center Off Broadway this holiday season. The engagement marks a return to New York for the Old Vic production, which played...
- Kevin Nealon Signs With UTA EXCLUSIVE: United Talent Agency has signed Emmy and SAG Award-nominated actor, comedian, and author Kevin Nealon for representation in all areas. Nealon is best known for his nine years at Saturday Night Live, where he had recurring role as an anchor on Weekend Update, played memorable characters like Mr. Subliminal,...
- Jimmy Fallon Is Bringing Wordle To TV With NBC Piloting Game Show; Savannah Guthrie Hosting Wordle, the online trivia game that attracts billions of plays each year, is being lined up for television. Deadline understands that NBC is piloting a game show based on the New York Times game with Savannah Guthrie hosting. Jimmy Fallon is involved in the adaptation, which is filming in the...
- Nicolas Jean Dies: French Screenwriter & ‘HPI’ Co-Creator was 63 French screenwriter Nicolas Jean, who was the co-creator of international hit series HPI which was then adapted in the U.S. as the Kaitlin Olson-starring show High Potential, has died at the age of 63. French writers’ guild SACD announced he had died suddenly on September 29, without giving the cause...
- ‘Tron: Ares’ Review: Jared Leto Goes Full-Boat AI On Greta Lee In Robotic Reboot Of Disney’s Digital Franchise Certainly 1982’s Tron from director Steven Lisberger was a groundbreaking piece of cinematic CGI wizardry, but for some reason it took 28 years for a sequel, 2010’s Tron: Legacy, a father-son story that marked Joseph Kosinski’s feature film directorial debut in a career that has since hit the heights of...
- Amazon Launching Gilgo Beach Murders Docuseries Rex Heuermann, a New York architect, was arrested in 2023 and subsequently charged for a series of murders in Long Island dubbed the Gilgo Beach serial killings. Heuermann was charged with murdering seven women in the area. Amazon is the latest company to shine a spotlight on the case with...
- Chris Pine & Jenny Slate To Topline Indie Romance ‘Carousel’ From Filmmaker Rachel Lambert EXCLUSIVE: Chris Pine (Don’t Worry Darling) and Jenny Slate (Dying for Sex) have inked deals to lead Carousel, writer-director Rachel Lambert’s follow-up to her dark 2023 Sundance comedy Sometimes I Think About Dying. Details on the indie’s plot are being kept under wraps, other than it being a love story....
- “Harry Potter” Gets 25th Anniversary Re-Release Warner Bros. Discovery has announced major plans for the upcoming 25th anniversary of the 2001 film “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” (aka. “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”) next year. The company has announced it is deploying a year-long celebration across all divisions, with those plans including a global...
- Full Trailer: “The Witcher” Season 4 While a previous teaser last month was essentially just a standalone clip, Netflix has now finally unveiled the official trailer for the fourth season of its epic fantasy series “The Witcher”. Liam Hemsworth takes over the role of Geralt of Rivia in the new season which will not be split...
- ‘The Witcher’ Season 4 Trailer: Liam Hemsworth’s Geralt Is On An Intense Search For Ciri: ‘Let’s F***ing Move!” An intense search is underway for Ciri in the official trailer for Season 4 of The Witcher. In it, we see Liam Hemsworth’s Geralt on a desperate quest to find Ciri (Freya Allan) amid a raging war and enemies awaiting him at every turn. The streamer also released some new...
- Taylor Swift Tells Jimmy Fallon Why She Isn’t Doing The Super Bowl Halftime Show Taylor Swift cleared up those Super Bowl rumors during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Monday. Asked by Fallon whether it was true that Swift turned down an offer to perform at the big game because she would not own the rights to the performance footage, the...
- Taylor Swift Tells Jimmy Fallon Why She Isn’t Doing The Super Bowl Halftime Show Taylor Swift cleared up those Super Bowl rumors during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Monday. Asked by Fallon whether it was true that Swift turned down an offer to perform at the big game because she would not own the rights to the performance footage, the...
- Giant Pictures Takes Worldwide Distribution On Ilya Chaiken’s Music Doc ‘Pretty Ugly: The Story Of The Lunachicks’ EXCLUSIVE: Giant Pictures has acquired worldwide distribution rights to documentary feature Pretty Ugly: The Story of the Lunachicks about the influential underground New York punk band. The deal was brokered by Concord Originals, the film and TV division of L.A.-based music and theatre company Concord, which financed and produced the...
- ‘Sentimental Value’; ‘It Was Just An Accident’ & ‘Deaf’ Make Europe’s LUX Audience Award Shortlist + Arab Critics For European Films Noms Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident and Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value are among five titles nominated for Europe’s Lux Audience Award. The prize is presented by the European Parliament and the European Film Academy in partnership with the European Commission and Europa Cinemas. Both films are also in the...
- Disney Bets Big On ‘Impossible Creatures’ & Its Oxford Prof Author Katherine Rundell In a deal worth substantial seven-figures, Walt Disney Studios won an auction to acquire rights to Impossible Creatures, the fantasy series by acclaimed British author Katherine Rundell. She will adapt the first two series books into screenplays. Impossible Creatures has become a publishing phenomenon on the order of Harry Potter,...
- D.C. ‘Damn Yankees’ Eyes Broadway Transfer With George Steinbrenner’s Granddaughter Producing – Report The critically lauded revival of Damn Yankees at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., is eyeing a move to Broadway, according to a report in The New York Times. The revival’s lead producer is Haley Swindal, the eldest grandchild of George Steinbrenner, the late longtime owner of the Yankees. Swindal was...
- Guillermo del Toro Set For Cinema Audio Society’s 2026 Filmmaker Award Paging Dr. Frankenstein: Guillermo del Toro is set to receive the Cinema Audio Society’s 2026 Filmmaker Award during the group’s awards show in March. The Frankenstein filmmaker and three-time Oscar winner will be feted during the 62nd annual CAS Awards on March 7 at a venue to be announced. CAS...
- “Star Wars: Ahsoka” S2 Wraps Filming Production has officially wrapped on the second season of the “Star Wars” series “Ahsoka”. Actors Natasha Liu Bordizzo who plays Sabine Wren, and Eman Esfadi who plays Ezra Bridger, both posted photos and videos of themselves commemorating the end of shooting. The new season held its wrap party the other...
- New Trailer: “Ballad of a Small Player” Netflix has premiered the full trailer for “Conclave” and “All Quiet on the Western Front” director Edward Berger’s new thriller feature “Ballad of a Small Player”. Colin Farrell plays Lord Doyle, a man laying low in Macau spending his days and nights on the casino floors, drinking heavily and gambling...
- Golf Comedy ‘The Long Shot’, With Ryan Hansen, Adrianne Palicki & Reggie Bush In Movie Debut, Gets North American Deal EXCLUSIVE: Vantage Media has acquired the distribution rights in North America for the golf comedy The Long Shot (previously known as The Salamander King), targeting a 2026 release. Cast comprises Ryan Hansen, Adrianne Palicki, Justin Chatwin, Dulcè Sloan and former college and NFL star Reggie Bush in his feature acting...
- Italian Industry Revenues Hit $19B, Annual Industry Report Shows – MIA Market The Italian audiovisual sector hit €16.3B ($19B) in 2024, the annual APA report revealed here in Rome at the MIA Market today. The stats show that linear and streaming TV grew 9% year-over-year, which helped the overall sector to achieve an annual expansion rate of 4.6%, more than twice Italy’s...
- Venice Winner ‘Silent Friend’, Starring Tony Leung & Léa Seydoux, Gets North American Deal EXCLUSIVE: 1-2 Special has acquired all North American rights from Films Boutique to Ildikó Enyedi’s Silent Friend, which is led by international cinema icon Tony Leung Chiu-Wai and French star Léa Seydoux, alongside Luna Wedler and Enzo Brumm. The film premiered in Competition at the 2025 Venice Film Festival where...
- Underscore Talent Launches Comedy Division To “Bridge Traditional Stand-Up With Digital-First Era” EXCLUSIVE: Underscore Talent has created a comedy unit, with several signings secured on launch. The next-gen talent management biz will be led by Underscore partner Michael Green, the industry veteran who co-founded The Firm and Studio71. The unit will aim to “bridge traditional stand-up with the digital-first era.” Green will...
- Producers Stuck In “Doom Loop” Over “Conservative” Streamer Demands, Says Banijay EMEA Scripted Chief – MIA Market Producers have been urged to exit the “doom loop” linked to their belief global streamers will continue “conservative” commissioning trends. Steve Matthews, Head of Scripted, Creative at Banijay, told an audience at the MIA Market today that there are actually reasons to be cheerful about the mood music in drama...
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